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50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs

2008-11-19T09:53:08Z

Written by: Sakib

Fundamentally any weblog would be made up of header, sidebar, content section and footer. In the eye of a visitor, the footer is perhaps one of the most unnoticeable section but to a designer who knows how important user experience, navigation and designs, they are treated the same. That said, footer will not be anything less important compared to the header (or masthead)

Footer contents varies from developer/author’s short bio, recent articles, Flickr photos, quick links and so on, but it’s interesting to find out how designers prioritize their footer. Not only it will inspires us, it somehow help us understand what we really need in our footer section.

Here’s a compilation of 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs collected everywhere from the blogosphere. If your footer is nice, let us know, we’d like to have it in our sequel entry. In the mean time, full list after jump.

About The Author

Name: Sakib
Website: OpenGiga
Profile: Enthusiast about social media, web technology & web 2.0, freelance writer and founder of Opengiga - One of the largest social networking blog site in south asia.

Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and Techniques

2008-11-16T11:03:09Z

Screen capture, or print screen is perhaps the most efficient way to share whatever appears on your desktop. They help tech users like us to share and communicate better with friends and peers. Major operating systems today comes with basic screen capture and print screen function, but if these can’t fulfill what you need from a screen capture then you are probably looking for a screen capturing tool.

Screen capturing tools do what the basic tool don’t. What these tools could do varies, including the ability to include sketches and text, instantly upload image online, audio capturing, dimension-specific capturing and more. Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques. Full list after jump.

Cross Platform

We love cross platform tools. No more worries when you are all too familiar with one tool and needs to get the job done on a different operating system.

Jing Project

A project of Techsmith, Jing has the ability to do instance image and video capturing. Aside from that, you can also do sketches on the image and share them online. Speaking from functionality point of view, being free tool is definetely a steal. [Download: Windows, Mac]
Evernote

Saying Evernote has cross platform supporting ability seems to be slightly inaccurate, instead it’s multi-platform. This awesome tool not only runs on Windows and Mac, it also supports iPhone, Windows Mobile and even websites. You’ve got to check out the video to see how great it is. [Download: Windows, Mac, more]
WebKut

Capture web pages in whole or parts. And because it’s developed with Adobe AIR, you bet it’s cross-platform. It captures web screenshots, the only problem is - it’s not attached to the browser. [Download]
Websnapshot

Yet another Adobe AIR application to take website snap shots. [Downloads]

Windows Only

By default, you can only do a full page and active window print screen on Windows. The following tools give you much more flexibility.

ZScreen

Open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. It can FTP screenshots and put the URL in your clipboard in a single keystroke. It supports automatic custom naming conventions with variables. [Download]
Screenshot Captor

Behave like most screen capture software. The most interesting part is - you can run it from a USB thumbdrive. Talking about print screen portability. [Download]
Cropper

Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# on the Microsoft .Net platform. [Download]
Capture

Capture is a quick-and-easy screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. [Download]
MWSnap

Small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. [Download]
ScreenPrint32

Free windows tool to print and/or capture to disk or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen. [Download]
Snippy

Useful free tool to copy webpage screenshot for sharing purposes. Interesting thing is that, when you cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard; this makes it very convenient to select something interesting on a Web site and send it out in an email message. [Download]
SWBCapture

Screen capture utility that allows you to quickly and easily capture an image of any window on your desktop, or the entire desktop. [Download]
Screen Grab Pro

Screen Grab Pro features one-click grab of any screen for ease of use, Timer operation, Current window selection list and more. [Download]
Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter

Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter is a free screen-capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area. [Download]
Gadwin PrintScreen

Capture screenshots with ease. [Download]
FastStone Capture

Light and powerful screen capture application with whole screen, object-selective and region screencapture ability. Save files in various formats, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF. [Download]

Mac Only

Here are some of the most commonly used screen capturing tools for the Mac enthusiast.

Capture Me

Flexible screen capture and recording utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window, several saving options, and resize ability. [Download]
Backdrop

Simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. Fill the window with a solid color or a custom image, your choice so you can take clean nice printscreen. [Download]
Skitch

Skitch is not solely a screen capture tool. It allows you to capture screen shots of any application, chat moments and the ability to sketch on the screen shots. You can then upload it to share with friends. A printscreen tool injected with some fun. [Download]
InstantShot!

InstantShot! offers classical screenshot functionality for capturing the whole screen, a portion of it or a window and also the option to make timed screenshots or to make delayed captures over time. It offers a wide range of preferences and options to fit everyone’s needs. [Download]
Paparazzi!

Written in Objective-C and the WebKit framework, this small utility is suitable for those who wants to do simple screen shots in their Mac. [Download]
Screenshot Helper

Screenshot Helper shows a full screen window with a solid color or a desktop picture so that you can take clean screenshots without having irrelevant windows and desktop icons in the background. [Download]
SnapNDrag

SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off, perhaps one of the simplest and easiet to use Mac printscreen tool we’ve seen. [Download]
About Timed Screenshot 1.1

A light screen capturing tool that runs in background until you kill the process (in Terminal) or logout. [Download]
Copernicus

Mac application for speed screenshot taking and video capturing (no audio). It’s also a virtual photo gallery. [Download]

Linux

Screen capturing tools for Linux users.

XscreenCapture

XscreenCapture allows you to capture an X11 dump from any Linux client with X11 port open. It will also convert and save automatically the result picture in the desidered compress format (default PNG). [Download]
Xvidcap

Screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. [Download]

Web Tools

These web tools go beyond screen capturing of your desktop. It allows you to print screen any website, all the way from header to footer.

Browsershot

Free web service that shows you how your website looks like in different browser of different version. A must tool for web developers on a browser compatibility check.
ScreenShots.jp

Similar to Browsershots, this free web services is for those who understand Japanese.
Super Screenshot

Simple web service for those who wants quick print screens. No compatibility check of different browser or versions available.
Clip2Net

Clip2Net allows you to capture, sketch and share screencaptures online instantly. Good tool to communicate ideas with peers. [Download]
Websnapr

As the name suggest, it snaps thumbnail screenshot of any webites. All you need to do is enter the URL and hit capture. Comes with plugins you to facilitate blogging and web publishing.
Thumbalizr

Yet another online web thumbnail generator. Comes with API.
Browsrcamp

Test the compatibility of your design with Mac OS X browsers. Free web screenshot tool build on Mac OSX Leopard.

Firefox Plugins

Screen capturing plugin for Firefox browser. They prints the lower fold screens you don’t see.

Screengrab!

Firefox plugin with the ability to printscreen entire upper-fold and lower-fold of any browsing websites. Instead of saving the screenshot to a file, you can copy it to clipboard. [Install]
FireShot

Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. Comes with sets of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Somehow it’s nota available for Firefox on Mac OSX [Install]

FlashEff Component For Adobe Flash Giveaway: Comment & Win!

2008-11-14T18:35:21Z

Greate news for those who uses Adobe Flash. We are giving out a copy of FlashEff Premium (worth $149) for free, countersy of Jumpeye Components. If you use Adobe Flash to create text and graphic animations, this could be your ultimate guide to create great animations.

What’s FlashEff?

FlashEff is an Adobe Flash component that makes creating cool animation for text and graphics easy. FlashEff currently has about 140 patterns you can use and it’s growing because there’s an Effect Gallery, user contribution model. Premium account enjoys unlimited access to Effect Gallery and yes, what we are giving is a premium account.

FlashEff Sample

Here’s a simple Flash animation I’ve created with FlashEff; 15 minutes of understanding the components and 3 minutes to create. It’s just simple.

Now whether you are a skillful designer or you are a beginner in Flash, you could be pretty much level now with FlashEff handling all the complex algorithm in creating animations. We guess it’s the creativity that counts now.

How to Win?

To win this copy of FlashEff Premium (worth $149), drop us a comment stating how FlashEff can be useful to you. We’ll send one copy to the best commentator. Entry close next Friday, 21th November.

Photoshop Alternatives: Another 14 Free Image Manipulation Tools

2008-11-17T08:00:21Z

Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images. We use raster graphics editor as primary tool to edit a digital image in terms of manipulating, enhancing, transforming, applying effects and filters, and file formats converting.

Due to the popularity of digital cameras, image editing programs are readily available. At this moment, we believe Adobe Photoshop is still the most powerful program on market which perform a large variety of advanced image manipulations. However, not everyone will afford to get a copy for popular raster-based digital image editors like Adobe Photoshop if all one need to do is just basic image editing.

While you’re at it..

We’ve previously published 11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives, and we encourage that you check it out too. And with no duplication between this, we got you 25 (in total) Photoshop alternatives here in hongkiat.com.

Full list after jump.

Photobie

Photobie is image editing software that combines features amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate. Photobie is free for personal use with no Pro upgrade to pay for — all features are free.
Photo Toolkit

Photo Toolkit is powerful multifunctional software offering a complete set of image editing tools. It contains anything a digital camera owner might need to correct or enhance their photos. You will enjoy the ultimate convenience and professional approach provided by each of the tools. With Photo Toolkit, you can remove red eye instantly, enhance the color of the image, make funny caricatures, add astonishing lighting effects, denoise, straighten, resample and crop images. You will also appreciate the Make Up tool, which will make the best of your portrait photos.
Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria is a fun, light-weight image editing application. The main focus is to apply effects to images, along with the basic editing that might be required after a sub-par shoot. In other words, what most of us actually need.
Image Analyzer

Image Analyzer is an advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.
Artweaver

Artweaver is a Windows Freeware program to simulate natural brush tools. It is therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run. Artweaver offers you a clear program window, which can be used without training immediately.
Active Pixels

Active Pixels resembles Photoshop in many aspects, from the way menus and windows are laid out on its interface to the keyboard shortcuts used for many actions. It also includes similar tools, like the magic wand, the gradient, the polygonal lasso and others. What’s more, it supports working with layers. Active Pixels also includes some extra embedded apps, such as a red-eye fixer, a picture browser and a screen capture tool - although it only grabs full-screen images.
Photoscape

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Photoscape has a very powerful editor for you to perform resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming.
VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor

VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor is a versatile image editor with an intuitive interface and a wide variety of features. This powerful application is user friendly, offering simple image editing, high productivity and easy customization.
PaintStar

PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques.
Helicon Filter

Helicon Filter is a complete image editing solution for the digital photographer. Its easy and intuitive interface, live preview feature, and in context help ensure an easy start for beginners. The program is built as step by step workflow guiding you through all post processing stages.
Evan’s Image Editor

Evan’s Image Editor (EIE) is a free image editor that allows for editing and creation of animated or still images. It contains several GPU-powered image modifiers that take advantage of modern graphics hardware, giving you an instant preview of the effect while you adjust parameters.
Free Image Editor

Free Image Editor is a bitmap image-editing application that lets you retouch existing photos or create original graphics. Free Image Editor provides a rich graphics toolset for digital photography, print production and Web design.
Photo Pos Lite

Photo Pos Lite is a free lite version of the award-wining photo editor Photo Pos Pro. Using the Lite version you can edit, enhance and manipulate your pictures easily. You can edit and optimize your pictures, print it, resize it, convert it to another format and much more. The editor also includes some great drawing and painting tools for creating computer graphics. Support of scanners and digital cameras, Various of Image Enhancing and editing tools and functions, Paint Brush Tool, Shapes Tool, Clone Brush Tool, Rich Text Tools, Special Effects, Selection Tools, Simple Gradients and more.
MAGIX Xtreme Photo Designer

In MAGIX Xtreme Graphic Designer your photos will be edited quickly and precisely. Its comprehensive set of features gives your less successful shots a helping hand and assists in transforming your photo ideas into reality. An intelligent Task Wizard explains simple and complex editing steps, resulting in successful image editing, fast!

35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs

2008-11-12T14:49:58Z

Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. It’s often a challenge to keep co-authors in control, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they did not miss anything before hitting the publish button, etc. Also sometimes you might also want to give different authors different level of accessibilities and controls, depending on their performances.

Luckily there are lots of Wordpress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.

More Wordpress related blog post:

Full list after jump.

Managing Blog Posts

If you have more than 5 authors on a particular blog, managing the daily published entries can be tedious especially when rules and checklists are not properly laid out. Even if they are, they might not be followed at the times. Dealing with situations like this, some plugins could be your life-savers, or at least making blog postings more efficient.

Future Posts Calendar
Adds a simple month-by-month calendar that shows all the months you have future posts for (and the current month no matter what), it highlights the days you have posts for, and as an added bonus if you click a day the Post Timestamp boxes change to that day, month and year. Pretty handy to organize and plan blog post for a multi authors blog. Also comes in form of widget.

Image Credit.
Pre-Publish Reminder
A friendly checklist for you and your co-authors before they hit the publish button to place any blog article live on the main page.

Similar plugins: Pre-Publish Reminders by Nick Ohrn, Category Remindr for those who forget inserting categories.
Draft Notification
This WordPress plugin automatically emails the admin when a new draft is saved. The email contains the post’s title, the author, and a link. There is no options page currently, because there is really nothing to configure. The plugin now supports the new ‘pending’ status.

Similar Plugins: Draft Notifier
Co-Authors
Allows multiple authors to be associated with a post. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. Additionally, co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is usual).

Similar Plugins: Multi Authors
Audit Trail Plugin
Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.
Report Posts
This allows your user to report any post they find not appropriate. Think of it as seeking users help on quality control. Reported posts then appear in the manage section of the admin console.
Gravatar plugin For Multiple Authors
Wordpress plugin that provides multi users to show their respective gravatars on their authored posts.

Managing Multi Authors

Sometimes you might want to give some authors a higher access over the others. By that we mean giving them the access to publish content without your moderation or perhaps access to sensitive areas you won’t share with the rest. These following plugins allow you to administrate your fellow authors the way you prefer.

Role Manager
Reworked from the previous version of Role Manager Plugin is written by David House and Owen Winkler. This plugin allows you to control roles and access for different authors on your blog.

Similar plugins: Role Scoper
Draft Control
The WordPress Plugin "Draft Control" allows users above level 5 to view drafts in a nice row paging system.
Hide Dashboard
A pretty self-explanatory plugin. The reason why you would need this is when you have multiple authors on your blog and you want to hide (or customize) the dashboards.
WP-Group Restriction
Wp-group-restriction is a Wordpress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages).
Adminimize
The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the submenu.

Authors Profiles

When co-authors write for your blog, the least you can do (if there’s no revenue sharing involved) is to publish a decent author’s profile as token of appreciation. Proper credits on authors are important, it shows how much you appreciate their work. Here are some plugins to place a decent Author’s Profile on blog post, or anywhere in the blog.

Post Avatar
Simplifies the process of including a picture when writing posts. Authors simply choose from a predefined list of images in the Write Post page to display an image in a post. A template tag displays the image with The Loop.
User Photo
Allows you to associate authors’ profile photos with their account under Your Profile , or any other pages with the use of tags like userphoto_the_author_photo(), userphoto_the_author_thumbnail() etc.
Posts by Author Plugin
This plugin will show the last X posts by the current author either at the bottom of every post, or where you manually specify in each post. Using the built-in options page, you can choose the number of posts to show, set the header text, choose to show the post dates, select the format of the date, and choose whether or not to include the current post in the list.
Get Author Profile
Allows you to access an author’s profile manually outside The Loop, such as for a sidebar intro of the blog owner or to list contributors to your blog.
Userextra
This plugin basically does two things. It adds the ability to associate extra information to users, and supports category access control where users are being control on which category they are allow to access and post article to.
Author Exposed
Simple Wordpress plugin that allows your visitors easy and elegant way to see more details about the post author.
List Author Widget
Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.
Blog Matrix Wordpress Plugin
This plugin provides a suite of extended WordPress sidebar, navigation and blog info template tags that can be filtered by author and category.
Author Comments
Highlights author’s comments with customizable styles. Requires author to login.

Communication

Communication is perhaps the utmost important factor in any successful multi-author blogs. Not only it promotes sharing of ideas, getting each other mutually inspired, it also help prevent having 2 authors clasing on writing the same (or similar) blog topics.

Share Notes on Dashboard
If you blog with multiple persons, you can leave a message for the others. In the plugin file, you can determine, what capabilities a user must have to read the notes, and what capabilities he must have to write/modify them. By default, Authors and higher can write, and every registered user can read.
Our Todo List
A plugin allowing authors to get together to share ideas and tasks with a managable section in Wordpress administration section.
Send Private Email
Allowing blog owners to send private emails to authors and users.

Similar plugins: Email Users
Multi Author Comment Notification

Plugin that sends comment notification to not only the specific author of the post, but to other authors of the blog as well. Customisable via admin panel.

Revenue Sharing

Last but not least - the moolah factor, the thing that drives and motivates (most) co-authors. Here are some plugins to make revenue sharing fair and square, or at least automated.

Author Advertising
This plugin allows blog admins to create a revenue sharing program utilising one of the many advertising programs out there i.e Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon, Allposters etc. It can also be used as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets.

Similar plugins: AdSense Revenue Sharing

31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials

2008-11-07T16:29:34Z

Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.

If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.

Headers and Navigation

Creating effective navigation for websites are essentially important as they determine how visitors surf and navigate your website. We’ve hand-picked some really sleek and simple navigation tutorials for the showcase. Making tweaks and changes will come pretty easy once you’ve mastered these tutorials.

Retro Dark Blue Header Design

How to create a dark blue header with a retro spin on it.
Wii Web Header

How to design the Wii header found at Nintendo.com.
Colorful Design Studio Header

How to create a colorful design studio header layout.
Metallic Header Design
Nature Theme Header
Professional Dark Header

How to create a simple, yet effective navigation for your website.
High-Detailed Plastic Navigation Bar

Navigation menus can vary from ordinary text links to the most complicated dropdown menus. This tutorial is describing detailed process of creation of “plastic” navigation bar.
Curled Corner

Learn how to create a sleek content box that features a curled corner to give it a more dimensional approach.
Green Navigation

How to make a stylish looking green navigation with a shine effect.
Blue on Black Navigation Bar

How to combine several layer styles to create a beautiful yet simple navigation bar.
Clean White Navigation Bar

Simplicity is the key to beautiful web layouts. Learn how to draw a beautiful navigation bar in Photoshop.
Modern Web Search Bar

How to create a modern web search bar with a drop down menu.
Dark Navigation Box

How to make a more advanced styled navigation box using some more effects and tools.
Clean Blue Navigation Box

How to use some tools and effects to make a navigation box for a web layout which you can apply the same techniques to make content boxes etc.
Create a Professional Gaming Header

How to create a professional gaming header design.
Volkswagen Inspired Navigation

This tutorial assumes that you know your way around Photoshop enough not to need too much hand-holding. You should know your way around the Layers palette and know how to add Layer Styles, use Custom Shapes and Clipping Masks without much explanation.
Design a Unique Bookmark Box

How to create a unique, and professional-styled bookmark/promote box for your personal Blog, or maybe even your website.

Full Layouts

For those who wish to create a website and with no idea at all, here are tutorials that guide you through designing the entire webpage layout, head to toe.

The Art Institute Photoshop Template

Easy steps to create a sleek template.
Talkmania Arhitecture layout
Creative Studio Web Page
Clean black and green webdesign
Unique Grungy Website Layout

How to design a cool grungy website layout.
Clean Business Layout Tutorial
Web 2.0 Blog Layout

Several new techniques are covered in this tutorial, such as interesting use of the drop shadow element. We’ll also cover creating a see-through navigation bar, as well as creating our own unique icons for this layout!
The Ultimate Grunge Design Tutorial

This tutorial will discuss how to create a fantastic grunge layout in Photoshop. It uses some techniques that are fairly common, and a couple that I’ve not seen discussed elsewhere before.
Real Estate Web Design

Create a clean and contemporary website design for a real estate related website.
Agency Layout
Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop

This tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop.
Photography portfolio

Awesome photography portfolio design with a lot of content boxes and an attractive look.
Konvicted Art

First photoshop tutorial and we thought it’s great.
Unique Desktop Layout

How to make a unique desktop style layer, using common work desk objects.

25 Free Digital Audio Editors You Should Know

2008-11-10T03:46:50Z

Credit: Background image from DA

A digital audio editor is defined as a computer application for manipulating digital audio. As a multimedia creator, we normally use audio editor for recording audio, edit the duration and timeline, mix multiple sound tracks, apply simple effects for audio enhancement and create conversion between different audio file formats.

There are countless ways that digital audio editor can be used, and fortunately there are plenty of good and free digital audio editors out there to help you with your own implementation. So if you’re thinking to purchase a license for Adobe Audition, Cool Edit or Soundforge, hold that thought first. Not to say they aren’t cool, but it’s always wiser to tryout free applications before going to the pay deal.

Here’s our collection of 25 free digital audio editors. Full list after jump!

Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It allows you to record live audio, converts tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. You also can cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together with Audacity. Built-in effects are given to remove static, hiss, hum or other constant background noises.
Power Sound Editor

Power Sound Editor Free is a visual audio editing and recording software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data.

You can use Power Sound Editor Free to record your own music, voice, or other audio files, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and burn it on a CD, post it on the World Wide Web or e-mail it.
mp3DirectCut

mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.
Music Editor Free

Music Editor Free (MEF) is a multi-award winning music editor software tool. MEF helps you to record and edit music and sounds. It lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. The program has no installer and doesn’t write in the registry. Use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering, sound design.
Traverso DAW

Traverso DAW is a GPL licensed, cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative and easy to master User Interface. It’s suited for both the professional and home user, who needs a robust and solid DAW. Adding and removal of effects plugins, moving Audio Clips and creating new Tracks during playback are all perfectly safe, giving you instant feedback on your work!
Ardour

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you’ve been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.
Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Hydrogen

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
WavePad Sound Editor

WavePad Sound Editor lets you make and edit music, voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
Sound Engine

SoundEngine is the best tool for personal use, because it enables you to easily edit a wave data while it has many functions required for a mastering process.
Expstudio Audio Editor

Expstudio Audio Editor is a visual music file editor that has many different options and a multiple functionality to edit your music files like editing text files. With a given audio data it can perform many different operations such as displaying a waveform image of an audio file, filtering, applying various audio effects, format conversion and more.
DJ Audio Editor

DJ Audio Editor is easy-to-use and well-organized audio application which allows you to perform various operations with audio data. You can create and edit audio files professionally, also displaying a waveform image of audio file makes your work faster.
Eisenkraut

Eisenkraut is a cross-platform audio file editor. It requires Java 1.4+ and SuperCollider 3. It supports multi-channel and multi-mono files and floating-point encoding. An OSC scripting interface and experimental sonagramme functionality are provided.
FREE WAVE MP3 Editor

Free Wave MP3 Editor is a sound editor program for Windows. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
Kangas Sound Editor

Fun Kangaroo-themed program that allows the user to create music and sound effects. It uses a system of frequency ratios for pitch control, rather than conventional music notation and equal temperament. It allows instruments, both musical and percussion, to be created.
Ecawave

Ecawave is a simple graphical audio file editor. The user-interface is based on Qt libraries, while almost all audio functionality is taken directly from ecasound libraries. As ecawave is designed for editing large audio files, all processing is done direct-to-disk. Simple waveform caching is used to speed-up file operations. Ecawave supports all audio file formats and effect algorithms provided by ecasound libraries. This includes JACK, ALSA, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins and multi-operator effect presets.
Audiobook Cutter

Audiobook Cutter splits your MP3 audio books and podcasts in a fast and user friendly way. The split files can easily be used on mobile MP3 players because of their small-size. Their duration allows smooth navigation through the book. The split points are determined automatically based on silence detection.
Jokosher

Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.
Mp3Splt

Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It’s very useful to split large mp3/ogg to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually or you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file) or from .cue files. Supports also automatic silence split, that can be used also to adjust cddb/cue splitpoints. You can extract tracks from Mp3Wrap or AlbumWrap files in few seconds.
Qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
ReZound

ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for.
Sweep

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins.
Wavesurfer

WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks.